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Court takes up affirmative action

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court seemed prepared Tuesday to uphold a voter-approved ban on taking account of race in college admissions. The court heard arguments related to a 2006 ...

DATE: Oct 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Justices hear campaign finance law case

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to free big individual donors to give more money to political candidates in the court’s first major campaign-finance case since the just...

DATE: Oct 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

High court weighs limits on campaign contributions

WASHINGTON – In its first major campaign finance case since the Citizens United ruling in 2010, the Supreme Court is considering whether to undo some limits on contributions from the biggest...

DATE: Oct 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Supreme Court rules Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional

WASHINGTON – In a historic victory for gay rights, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a provision of a federal law denying federal benefits to married gay couples and cleared the way...

DATE: Jun 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Court changes historic voting act

Southern states no longer need federal oversight of elections

DATE: Jun 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

High court voids key part of Voting Rights Act

WASHINGTON – A deeply divided Supreme Court on Tuesday halted enforcement of the federal government’s most potent tool to stop voting discrimination over the past half century, saying it doe...

DATE: Jun 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Government obtains Associated Press phone records in probe

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a ...

DATE: May 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. prosecutors move quickly

Plan to use public-safety exception in interrogation

DATE: Apr 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World